Court Office Assistant Jobs in City, Suburbs

Start at $26,354, With Senior Title at $33G; Must File by Feb. 13; Year of Clerical Experience And Passing Test Grade Needed to Qualify

The state Office of Court Administration is hiring Court Office Assistants and Senior Court Office Assistants for positions in New York City, Nassau, Suffolk, and Westchester counties, as well as neighboring suburbs to the north.

The starting salary for Court Office Assistants is $26,354. The hiring rate for Senior Court Office Assistants is $33,079. There is a $30 non-refundable application fee. Applications must be postmarked by Feb. 13; the exam will be held on June 6.

Get Downstate Differentials

Appointees in New York City, Nassau, Suffolk, Rockland, and Westchester counties receive $3,451 as an annual downstate adjustment that reflects a higher cost of living than exists upstate. Appointees in Orange, Dutchess and Putnam counties receive $1,725 in annual location pay. New York State residency is not a requirement.

Court employees receive 20 days of paid vacation and 12 paid holidays during their first year of service. They also accrue 13 days of paid annual sick leave. Participation in medical, dental, life insurance and retirement plans is offered.

The written examination for Court Office Assistant will consist of multiple choice questions and will assess the following skills: clerical checking; court record-keeping; reading, understanding and interpreting written material; filing, and number facility. The written examination for Senior Court Office Assistant will consist of multiple-choice questions and will assess all of these skills as well as the ability to prepare written material and apply facts and information to given situations.

Eligibility Standards

To be eligible for the Court Office Assistant position, an applicant must have one year of full-time clerical experience and a high school diploma by the date of the exam. Senior Court Office Assistants applicants must have two years of full-time clerical experience and a high school diploma or its educational equivalent.

Court Office Assistants work under close supervision on a variety of office clerical and administrative support tasks, such as checking, filing, and sorting court papers, obtaining and copying information, retrieving material from files and providing information at public counters, as well as performing incidental keyboarding of information and other related duties. Court Office Assistants are located in courts of every jurisdiction, County Clerks' and Commissioners of Jurors' Offices, law libraries, and administrative offices and auxiliary agencies in the Unified Court System.

Senior Court Office Assistants use an understanding of administrative and legal requirements, policies and procedures to work with a limited degree of independence on a variety of office clerical and administrative support tasks, such as checking, filing, and sorting court papers, obtaining and copying information, and retrieving material from files. They may work at public counters as information clerks, may perform incidental keyboarding of information, may also work in courts of every jurisdiction as part clerks in those parts that operate on less than a full-time basis, and may perform other related duties. Senior Court Office Assistants are located in the same places as Court Office Assistants.

The application may be downloaded from the Unified Court System Web site at www.nycourts.gov/careers/ USC_Form19_proof14.pdf or picked up from the courts and court agencies or by writing to the Examination Unit, Office of Court Administration, PO Box 1060, Church Street Station, New York, NY 10008-1060.